White Collar/ Occupational Crime

Question 1

What is occupational crime?

Answer 1

Any act punishable by law that is committed through opportunity created in the course of an occupation that is legal.

Question 2

What are the levels of occupational crime?

Answer 2

• Organization (monopolies)
• Professional (physicians
  overbilling medical care)
• State-Authority (Police engaging
  in unlawful behaviour)
• Individual (Walk out of the office
  with office supplies)

Question 3

What are neutralization strategies?

Answer 3

• Moral justification (justification
  to make positive a culpable act)
• Victim Blaming
• Minimizing effects

Question 4

What are examples individual occupational crime?

Answer 4

• Abuse of sick leave
• Excessive and/or long breaks
• Slow/poor workmanship
• Falsifying time sheets
• Counter-productive behaviours
• Prevalent in young single males
• Higher in places with employee
  dissatisfaction.

Question 5

What are the motives for pyromania?

Answer 5

• Revenge, vandalism, crime

concealment, profit.

Question 6

What is pyromania?

Answer 6

The presence of multiple episodes of deliberate and purposeful fire setting.

Question 7

What are the two perspectives on illicit drug use?

Answer 7

1) Use, sale, manufacturing, 
   distribution and possession of
   illegal drugs that result as a 
   criminal behaviour.
2) Pharmacological effects on 
    user's behaviour in promoting
    criminal actions.

Question 8

More individuals are incarcerated of held in jails and prisons for ____ _________ than for any other offense?

Answer 8

Drug offenses

Question 9

Arrestees and incarcerated offenders were often under the influence of ______ _____ when they committed their offences?

Answer 9

Illicit drugs

Question 10

Some offenders commit what to support their drug habit?

Answer 10

Property crime

Question 11

What are the three types of drug-related crime in the tripartite conceptual model?

Answer 11

1) Psychopharmacologically Driven
2) Systemic
3) Economically compulsive

Question 12

What is the psychopharmacological driven type? (In the tripartite conceptual model)

Answer 12

Some drugs cause some people to become violent and engage in criminal actions.

Question 13

What is the systemic type? (in the tripartite conceptual model?)

Answer 13

Crime occurs due to system of drug trafficking and distribution.

Question 14

What is the economically compulsive type? (in the tripartite conceptual model?)

Answer 14

Criminal behaviour occurs to support a substance habit.